Loathsome Literature.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1445, 3 September 1885, Page 4

Loathsome Literature.

Under the heading " The degradation of journalism " the Australasian has a strong article auainst " the loathsome literature which panders to the lowest passions of human nature. But ifc has been reserved for the present year to witness a respectable London newspaper descend into the lowest depths of literary and moral degradation and make its shamaeless profit from the stories of the brothel. Worse perhaps still it is that m this city (Melbourne) where no pretence ot necessity can be urged as an excuse, respectable journals do not shrink from polluting their pages with a repetition of the filthy stuff which English Dews-vendors excluded from their stalls, and upon which the unanimous voice of all decent people cried shame." ° * " The evil done by the circulation of this poision among the morals of young people to whom the Pall Mall Gazette so triumphantly refers is only too plain," o ° "We can only on behalf of honest journalism and of common decency, protest against such a degradation of an honourable profession, and against the acceptance of a gain not less vile than that of the vile creatures whose doings are thus unworthy recorded."